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History of Graphic Design through Publications: TREASURES in our LIBRARY

1200s - 1700s

The Two Winchester Bibles

Codex Tro-Cortesianus

Göttingen Model Book

Caxton & the Polychronicon

Nuremberg Chronicle

Astronomicum Caesareum

Writing Manuals

L'Apocalypse Figurée

The Type Specimen

1800s

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

The Pencil of Nature

Women's Magazines

La Fontaine's Fables

The Kelmscott Chaucer

Aubrey Beardsley

English Illustration

Books About the History of Publishing

This is but a sampling of books about books and publishing.

A History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs
Call Number: Z244.5 M43 1998
The Book of Books
Call Number: Z4 B66 2012
A Treasury of Hours
Call Number: ND3363 A1 F3913 2005
Books
Call Number: Z4 L95 2011
The Art of the Book
Call Number: Z116 A3 A7 2001
Children's Literature
Call Number: NC965 A1 C54 1995

Addtional Web Resoures

Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources Collaborative bibliography meant to help instructors of design history decenter whiteness in their classes
Letterform Online Archive Collection of digitized documents and artifacts from the Letterform Archive, a nonprofit founded by Rob Saunders in 2015 in San Francisco. The basis of the Archive, some 60,000 objects spanning the history of typography and graphic design, includes periodicals, posters, books, ephemera, typeface specimens, and a reference library.

Last Updated: Jan 10, 2022 5:55 PM
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Subjects: Book Arts, Graphic Design

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